10.03.18: The film rights of En anden gren [Show med] sold to Regner Grasten Film. The films director is going to be Charlotte Sachs Bostrup, who also writes the filmscript with Flemming Klem. The recordings are scheduled to begin next year with filmpremiere in 2020.

05.03.18: The picture book Lillefingeren (The Little Finger), illustrated by Otto Dickmeiss is shortlisted for the best children book of 2017, The Ministry of Culture, Denmark.

12.10: Frankfurt Book Fair 2017: The illustrated book Lillefingeren [The Little Finger] selected as a White Raven Book of the International Youth Library which i.a. annually publishes an acclaimed list of outstanding fiction for children and young adults from across the world. HERE.

02.05: Talk with Trine May at Gyldendal for teachers about the books Lillefingeren, Lynkineser m.m..

01.05: Lynkineser (Squib ), illustrated by Rasmus Meisler, private pictures and other graphic work published by Dansklærerforeningen in Denmark. A book in the serie "Min historie" (My Story) Sample HERE.

20.10: Frankfurt Book Fair 2016: The novel 'ZAM' [ZAM the Zombie] selected as a White Raven Book of the International Youth Library which i.a. annually publishes an acclaimed list of outstanding fiction for children and young adults from across the world.

12.10: The poem 'Det halve rige' / 'Half the Kingdom' is selected as Poem of the Week by the international literary magazine The Missing Slate.

16.06: The YA Novel ZAM [Zam the Zombie] honored with The Best Danish Book Design Award at the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen. The novel will be exhibited in the Royal Danish Library from June to August 2016 as well as The Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 and The Copenhagen Book Fair 2016.

Filming of Regner Grasten’s cinematic adaption of En-to-tre-NU! [One-two-three-GO!] in Svendborg and Malloca

November:

06.11-08.11: Copenhagen Book Fair 2015: JWS lectures on his latest novel, ZAM [Zam the Zombie] and is interviewed by politician and former Danish minister Dan Jørgenson on exclusion from contemporary modern societies in relation to JWS authorship and ZAM [Zam the Zombie]

03.11: JWS lectures on the role of sport & the body in his fiction including En-to-tre-NU! [One-to-three-GO!] , Ægte brøker [Proper Fractions] and his debut collection of short stories, To ryk og en aflevering [Kick & Rush], Vorbasse library, Jutland

06.08: JWS gives a lecture on Passion and the innovative mind-set at Holbælk theatre, Holbæk, Zealand

July:

Literary portrait of JWS by Trine May published in the Literary Series Fandango 9

June:

04.06: Ægte brøker [Proper Fractions] short-listed for English PENs Best New European Literary Voice in Translation. A pitch of the novel presented to a panel of editors by translator Lindy Falk van Rooyen at the European Literature Night 2015, Free Word Centre, London

Dramatic adaptation of Den sidste henrettelse [The Last Execution] performed in Svendborg theatre

07-09.11: Copenhagen Book Fair 2014: JWS gives two interviews on MEN [JUST MEN] with respect to contemporary perspectives on masculinity in literature. JWS gives an overview of his career since his debut at the Fair in 1998 and discusses his latest novel Ud med Knud [Boot Canute] in a televised interview with DR1